Sunday, June 19, 2011

Did You Even Watch The Video, Josh?

Impersonator Reggie Brown had his mic cut off and was escorted off the stage after he slammed Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty and Michelle Bachman during his routine at the GOP event in New Orleans on Saturday.

Let's not attack each other, and I think there is some projection going on.

Josh Marshall is so inside baseball that he's not really progressive. This isn't a purity test- he's a media establishment figure who sells himself as a different flavor. He's no one to be proud of. I don't hate him, I would just like to replace him with someone better- someone with more integrity. You can't criticize Hardball if you should up to play games on Hardball. He's pushing his website not an agenda. TPM is Politico Lite- they aren't as bad as Politico, but they do punch hippies, and they do play rhetorically cheap pool with critics on the left, and during the 2008 primaries he made the massive mistake of shredding his reputation by saying "we report horse race not policy, because everyone knows about policy." Is this true? No- like Bob Somerby says, how can you convince anyone of anything, if you only play childish games? Why can't you report on the facts? These guys make mistakes- but they almost never admit it, they just ignore it.

What Pinko says. He is a more intelligent Yglesias. He tongue-bathes the powerful to secure his position, while punching anyone more left than Chris Matthews. He is one more likely to successfully stick a knife in the back of the left because they will have trusted him.

When your technology is roaring forward like a rocket while everything on the books from the legal definition of personhood to child labor laws to the motherfucking meat of the Magna Carta are fair game, you can be sure you're in the most lively political times since at least the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, no matter how convincingly or sincerely some petit-bourgeois wonk yawns all over you.